Support

Status and availability

A status is a customizable message visible to all team members. A
typical status might be "in a meeting", "on vacation", or "visiting SF next week".

Your availability is a colored dot (like )
that indicates if you're currently active on Zulip, idle,
offline, or unavailable. If you're not current active, Zulip also lets your
teammates know when you were last active.

Set a status

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Hover over your name in the right sidebar.

Click the down chevron () to the right.

Click Set a status message.

Set a status messages and click Save.

You can view anyone else's status by hovering over their name in the left or
right sidebar, or by clicking their name or avatar in the main message feed. If
they haven't set a status, no status will appear.

About availability

There are four possible availabilities:

Active (): Zulip is
open and in focus on web, desktop or mobile, or was in the last 140
seconds.

Idle (): Zulip is open on
your computer (either desktop or web), but you are not active.

Offline (): Zulip is not
open on your computer.

Unavailable (): You can
always manually set your availability to unavailable.

For Group PMs, a green circle
()
means all users in the group are active. A pale green circle () means that some are active and some are
not. A white circle () means that none
are active.

You can see when someone was last recorded as active by hovering over
their name in the left or right sidebar (even if the user is marked as
unavailable).

Set yourself as unavailable

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Hover over your name in the right sidebar.

Click the down chevron () to the right.

Click Set yourself as unavailable.

Disable updating availability

Zulip supports the privacy option of never updating the availability
information for your account. The result is that you will always
appear to other users as Offline (or Unavailable, if you've
set an appropriate status), regardless of your activity in Zulip.

With this setting, your "Last active" time displayed to other users in
the UI will be frozen as the time you enabled this setting.